This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Ban employers from using the Bradford Index as an absence calculator within UK.
The Bradford index appears in no mathematical statistical studies and is simply put a blunt scare tactic tool with inbuilt assumptions about patterns of absence from the workplace. The idea that its numbers are neutral and therefore unchallengeable is quite frankly nonsense.
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The absence of the terms "false positives" or "significance testing" from any promotions of it on HR sites should flag up a red warning that this is a statistically crude method with a dubious pedigree. Recent enquiries to Bradford University came up blank as to who proposed this statistical monstrosity. No reliable, scientific evidence as to its effectiveness over other methods. No RCTs, no factor analysis, nothing.
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